- Yankee Stadium cooling tower tests positive for Legionella bacteria
Source: United Press International
“A cooling tower at Yankee Stadium is one of 10 in the South Bronx that has been ordered for disinfecting on Monday after testing positive for Legionella bacteria. The cleaning order by the New York City Health Department follows an outbreak of a new Legionnaires’ cluster in the South Bronx. A tower at Lincoln Hospital and another at Boricua College Bronx Campus have also been flagged for cleaning. … New York City health officials announced the first fatality related to the cluster on Friday. Health officials were investigating the origin of the cluster and have tested 24 cooling towers so far.” (09/14/26)
- SCOTUS blocks Trump’s mail post election-rigging scheme
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“The US Supreme Court has rejected President Donald Trump’s plan to restrict voting by mail before November’s midterm elections, in a setback for the White House. The justices upheld a federal judge’s order that temporarily blocked the US Postal Service (USPS) from moving forwards with new requirements for postal ballots. But it is unlikely to be the final word on the matter. Justice Brett Kavanaugh, a conservative, agreed with the ruling, but indicated he might later rule in Trump’s favour as litigation in the case continues. … Kavanaugh wrote in the opinion that there was ‘at least a fair prospect that the final rule falls within the Postal Service’s statutory authority’. But he argued that ‘applying the rule in the 2026 elections would be arbitrary and capricious’. Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, also conservatives [sic], dissented.” (09/14/26)
- Oil Prices Rise Above $107 as Middle East Supply Risks Remain in Focus
Source: Yahoo! Finance
“Oil prices rose on Tuesday as investors monitored further Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia and continued uncertainty over the timing of talks concerning the Strait of Hormuz. Benchmark Brent crude futures increased 2.0% to $107.83 per barrel by 04:19 ET, while US West Texas Intermediate futures rose 2.1% to $103.50 per barrel. Talks between Iran and Gulf states concerning the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz remained on hold after Oman said a planned Monday meeting had been postponed. Oman did not provide a new date for the discussions. Iran-aligned Houthi forces in Yemen carried out further strikes against Saudi Arabia on Monday and continued operations around the Red Sea and Bab al-Mandab Strait.” (09/15/26)
https://finance.yahoo.com/energy/articles/oil-prices-rise-above-107-093258084.html
- McConnell finally shows up
Source: Associated Press
“Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky returned to the Senate to vote on Monday for the first time in three months, looking noticeably more frail after he was hospitalized for a June fall in his home. … He briefly addressed reporters Monday from a wheelchair outside the Senate chamber, smiling but speaking slowly and with some difficulty. McConnell joked that he wasn’t sure how many reporters would be there after dodging so many questions during his almost two decades as leader.” (09/14/26)
https://apnews.com/article/mitch-mcconnell-senate-return-abe03e84e30a174da4076385692b5751
- Ukraine: UK armed forces member dies in “road traffic incident”
Source: euoronews [EU]
“A member of the UK armed forces died in Ukraine on Saturday, the British Ministry of Defence has announced. The unnamed service member died as the result of a “road traffic incident,” the ministry said in a statement posted to social media. ‘The family have been informed and have requested a period of grace before further details are released,’ it reads. ‘Our thoughts and sympathies are with the individual’s loved ones at this difficult time’. … Few details are available on the UK’s military presence in Ukraine, although Westminster has previously confirmed that British personnel are present in the country. These personnel support the security of the UK Defence Section in Ukraine and offer medical training and mentoring to Ukraine’s Medical Forces.” (09/14/26)
- EU pols fantasize that they can keep under-15s off social media
Source: Politico
“The European Commission will propose new rules to restrict minors’ access to social media and video-sharing platforms before the age of 15, according to preparatory documents seen by POLITICO and a person familiar with the matter. The EU executive on Thursday will unveil a new EU KIDS Act setting out age restrictions, along with new rules requiring covered products, such as social media and AI companions, to be safe [sic] by design. The proposal aims to create a tiered system for accessing social media under parental supervision before age 15, the documents said.” (09/14/26)
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-to-propose-new-legislation-on-minors-protection-on-thursday/
- Trump Jr. And Wife Defend Lavish Wedding ‘Gift’ From Russian Oligarch
Source: Forbes
“Donald Trump Jr. and his wife Bettina defended their friendship with a Russian oligarch linked to Vladimir Putin after a report that Umar Kremlev paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to help fund their wedding weekend at private islands in the Bahamas earlier this year. Calling Kremlev a ‘dear friend,’ the couple said in a lengthy statement posted to Instagram along with 20 photos of the event that he ‘very generously hosted two incredible nights of celebrations for us AFTER our wedding,’ calling it an ‘extraordinarily generous wedding gift from a friend,’ noting the two were married in a private ceremony a day before leaving for the Bahamas. … Kremlev has a longstanding relationship with the Russian government—days before the wedding Kremlev was part of Putin’s delegation on a trip to China … ProPublica reported …” (09/14/26)
- Sweden: Political parties launch coalition talks as both blocs try to secure power
Source: The Guardian [UK]
“Sweden’s political parties have launched coalition negotiations as the Social Democrats leader, Magdalena Andersson, started the long and difficult process of trying to form a new government. Full results from Sunday’s election are not expected until after overseas votes are counted on Wednesday, but with 95% of the votes counted, the Social Democrats and the centre-left bloc had a narrow but growing lead of 176 seats to the right-leaning parties’ 173. After losing support for the first time since they were founded, the far-right Sweden Democrats, who were hoping to enter government for the first time, appear to be out of the picture. But many of its policy ideas – on immigration laws, integration and crime – have become mainstream, including in the centre-left.” (09/14/26)
- Macklemore yanked off Ed Sheeran’s tour after anti-Israel rants anger venues
Source: New York Post
“Macklemore has been kicked off the rest of Ed Sheeran’s stadium tour after several venues said they would refuse to let the rapper perform after his anti-Israel rants on stage. ‘We have been notified by venues on the upcoming U.S. tour dates that they will not allow a concert to take place with Macklemore on the lineup, which would result in the cancellation of the tour and impact hundreds of thousands of fans,’ Messina Touring Group, which is promoting the US leg of Sheeran’s Loop Tour, told Rolling Stone magazine. ‘After discussions with stakeholders, Macklemore will not be performing on the remaining support dates,’ the company added. The lefty rapper was scheduled to play at eight of the 10 remaining shows, scheduled to resume on Saturday.” (09/14/26)
- Kennedy Center warns of bankruptcy unless Trump’s name returns
Source: USA Today
“Officials at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts have warned that the institution is nearing bankruptcy and could be forced to close as early as Tuesday, Sept. 15, according to multiple reports. In documents obtained by The Washington Post and The New York Times, the Kennedy Center’s current leadership — which was installed by President Donald Trump — argued that the institution faces ‘certain fiscal collapse’ unless the president’s name is added back to its facade. … The draft resolution claims that within a few weeks the institution will not be able to pay employees or meet maintenance costs, according to the Post. … ‘The board understands that without such appropriate recognition it is unlikely that President Trump will provide the fundamental oversight of the renovation of the main building and lead the fiscal rescue of the center,’ the draft resolution states, the Times reported.” (09/14/26)
- China: Regime denies reports it gave Iran intel before deadly strike on US base in Jordan
Source: Times of Israel [Jerusalem]
“Beijing rejects ‘groundless’ reports that Chinese entities supplied Tehran with satellite images of a military base housing US troops in Jordan, before and after an Iranian strike killed three American soldiers. The reports by the Wall Street Journal over the weekend related to July 17 missile strikes launched by Iran on the Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan. Unnamed American officials cited in the Journal’s reporting did not name the Chinese entities involved, and did not suggest that Beijing was directly to blame.” (09/14/26)
- Ex-CIA Director John Brennan issued subpoena in Trump “grand conspiracy” investigation
Source: SFGate
“Former CIA Director John Brennan has been subpoenaed to testify next month before a Florida grand jury as part of a Justice Department investigation into whether former law enforcement and intelligence officials conspired against President Donald Trump, one of his lawyers said Monday. Ken Wainstein, an attorney for Brennan, disclosed in a court filing that prosecutors last Thursday presented him with a subpoena for Brennan to appear Oct. 15 before a grand jury in Fort Pierce, Florida. He said he was told that the subpoena relates to a “far-reaching” criminal probe examining a loosely defined theory that the government officials who have investigated Trump over the last decade, including over Russia election interference in 2016 and his more recent retention of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate, conspired to deprive Trump of his civil rights. The subpoena to Brennan is among a flurry that have been issued in recent weeks.” (09/14/26)
- Philippines: Muslim enclave votes for parliament after deadly shooting
Source: France 24 [French state media]
“Polls closed on Monday across an autonomous Muslim region of the Philippines that waited decades to choose its own leaders, with officials praising a successful election despite sporadic violence. The parliamentary election was the culmination of a sometimes-bumpy peace process that began in the late 1990s and established the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) in the country’s far south. More than two million voters were eligible to vote for 80 parliament seats that had previously been filled by appointees. … Gunfire erupted outside a polling station at a Cotabato school before polls opened, killing three people and wounding 15 others.” (09/14/26)
- NY: Mamdani, James sue to block Trump regime from refusing immigrants over welfare status
Source: Fox News
“New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is suing President Donald Trump’s administration over plans to expand federal authority to deny visa and green card applications based on welfare status. The lawsuit, filed jointly with NY Attorney General Letitia James, targets the Trump administration’s plan to expand the ‘public charge’ rule, which allows the federal government to deny visa applications based on the likelihood that the applicant will receive public benefits. Trump’s administration seeks to expand the list of benefits that apply under the rule, with the change taking effect Sept. 18. ‘If you are a citizen, or an individual seeking humanitarian relief like asylum, these changes will not affect you,’ Mamdani said at a press conference Monday. ‘The new public charge rule not only sweeps aside more than a century of established law, it is intentionally vague as a means of creating uncertainty and fear to isolate immigrant New Yorkers.'” (09/14/26)
- AI stocks slide after major CEOs unite to urge slowdown
Source: CNBC
“Artificial intelligence stocks dropped on Monday after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for a slowdown of the development of AI capabilities, and other major tech figures backed the proposal. Investors are concerned that an industry-wide slowdown in AI development could have ripple effects for companies across the sector and curb adoption. Chipmaking and hardware stock heavily tied to the AI buildout dropped on Monday. … The sell-off comes amid the growing debate over the risks posed by rapidly improving AI model capabilities that hit a crescendo last week after Jacob Coxon, a researcher at Anthropic who also previously worked at OpenAI, said he resigned out of concern that Anthropic and OpenAI are ‘gambling with our lives.'” (09/14/26)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/14/ai-stocks-slowdown-amodei-altman.html
- TX: Landowners sue to block Trump border wall plans in remote Big Bend region
Source: SFGate
“Landowners, ranchers and business owners in the Big Bend region of Texas along with a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting the region’s landscape and heritage are suing to stop the Trump administration’s plans to build a wall and other border infrastructure through the remote section of the state. The lawsuit, filed by Conserve Big Bend and with the support of dozens of landowners, comes as the administration is ramping up a $46 billion effort to line the roughly 2,000-mile southern border with a collection of 30-foot (9-meter) steel bollard walls, vehicle barriers, and technology intended to keep out smugglers and migrants. In Texas, the effort has run up against numerous lawsuits and bipartisan opposition from sheriffs, elected officials, tour guides, environmental groups and landowners.” (09/14/26)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/texas-landowners-sue-to-block-trump-border-wall-22431123.php
- Brazil: Supreme Court justice unseals probe into Bolsonaro biopic, citing suspected criminal funding
Source: ABC News
“A Brazilian Supreme Court justice on Sunday unsealed an investigation into the production of a film about former President Jair Bolsonaro, pointing in his decision to suspicions the movie’s financing had ties to a criminal network. The suspicions laid out in Justice Flávio Dino’s decision may complicate matters further for Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro, only weeks before October’s national elections in which he will challenge President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Sen. Bolsonaro, the ex-leader’s eldest son, is under investigation for corruption, money laundering and tax evasion for receiving millions of dollars from a disgraced banker to finance the biopic about his father, titled ‘Dark Horse.'” (09/14/26)
- Buckingham Palace works uncover trove of everyday items dating back to 1800s
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“A pair of battered, hobnailed boots and a decades-old newspaper cutting are among a trove of everyday objects unearthed during restoration work at Buckingham Palace. The misplaced items are thought to belong to staff who worked at the palace decades ago, and were found by workers carrying out the £369m refurbishment. A ticket for ‘a whist drive’ (a card game event hosted by the Palace on 14 April 1949) was found embedded in a lump of brick. Several betting slips, a bottle of Schweppes Still Malvern English Spring Water, an empty Silk Cut cigarette carton and a newspaper article about the gang jailed for the 1963 Great Train Robbery were also found under floorboards.” (09/14/26)
- Amazon halts operations with cargo carrier 21 Air after Miami crash
Source: United Press International
“The e-commerce giant Amazon announced Sunday that it was suspending operations with the U.S. cargo air carrier that operated Flight 7598, which crashed after landing at Miami International Airport last week, killing five people. ‘Safety has always been our top priority, whether in our operations or when we’re working with partners,’ Amazon spokesperson Kelly Nantel said in a statement. … 21 Air said it was focused on aiding those affected by the crash and working with federal investigators and Amazon amid the investigation.” (09/14/26)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2026/09/13/Amazon-suspends-service-21-Air-after-crash/7781789355724/
- NH: Ex-youth detention center counselor faces sex assault trial
Source: SFGate
“A sexual assault trial starts Monday for a New Hampshire man whose arrest more than seven years ago kicked off one of the biggest youth detention scandals in U.S. history. Former youth counselor Jeffrey Buskey, 60, of Litchfield, faces allegations involving four boys held at the Youth Development Center in Manchester in the late 1990s. In the first of his cases to go to trial, he is charged with 21 counts of aggravated felonious sexual assault involving David Meehan, who was 14 when he arrived at the facility now called the Sununu Youth Services Center in 1995. Meehan filed the first of more than 1,100 lawsuits alleging physical, sexual or emotional abuse spanning six decades. His allegations led to the arrest of Buskey and another former worker in 2019, an unprecedented criminal investigation, nine additional arrests, and the establishment of a settlement fund to compensate victims.” (09/14/26)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/ex-youth-detention-center-counselor-faces-sex-22430980.php
- The ‘Stop Nick Shirley Act’: Yet Another Anti-Doxxing Law That Chills Free Speech
Source: Reason
by Josh Pauzé“Conservative [sic] YouTuber Nick Shirley has taken his anti-fraud crusade to California, but a recently passed law, coined by conservatives as the ‘Stop Nick Shirley Act,’ is threatening to derail him, or so he says. Now Shirley is challenging it in federal court. Shirley outlined his argument in a recent YouTube video, claiming that the legislation is a blatant violation of the First Amendment created in response to him exposing fraud across California. In his suit, he also alleges that it discriminates based on the content and viewpoint of speech and is unconstitutionally ‘overbroad and vague.'” (09/14/26)
- King Ludd
Source: Astral Codex Ten
by Scott Alexander“Blake, Lovecraft, and Tolkien – not to mention the original Celtic myths – all share a common theme: a deep ambivalence about technology which finally settles into determined opposition. … I was thinking about all this when trying to figure out why a mob of thousands of people terrorized north Britain in the 1810s while shouting ‘King Ludd! King Ludd!’ And why it took an army bigger than the one Wellington was leading against Napoleon to put them down. And why people regularly accuse me of being associated with them.” (09/14/26)
- No Emergency Exception in the Constitution
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger“The Constitution called into existence a federal government whose powers were limited to those few powers that are enumerated in the Constitution itself (as well as the powers incidental to carrying its enumerated powers into execution). If a power is not enumerated, it cannot legally be exercised by the president, the Congress, the judiciary, or the national-security establishment. Notice something important: There is no constitutional provision that states ‘In an emergency, U.S. officials shall be vested with whatever powers they deem necessary to address the emergency.'” (09/14/26)
https://www.fff.org/2026/09/14/no-emergency-exception-in-the-constitution/
- The Food Revolution Nobody Planned
Source: The Daily Economy
by Byron Carson“From food trucks to farmers’ markets and beyond, entrepreneurs — not policymakers — are finding new ways to feed people, create value, and deliver much more than just cheaper food.” (09/14/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/the-food-revolution-nobody-planned/
- Jesus of Nazareth Wasn’t a Socialist. He Wasn’t a Capitalist Either.
Source: Exiled Policy
by Jason Pye“One of my least favorite habits in American politics is watching people reach for the Bible to give moral authority to whatever economic views they already hold. Conservatives have spent decades talking about capitalism, private property, and limited government as though they fit naturally within a Christian worldview. Christian progressives do something similar from the other direction, pointing to the concerns Jesus of Nazareth had for the poor and his commands to love one’s neighbor as evidence for a much more redistributive economic order. I’ve never been particularly persuaded by either argument.” (09/14/26)
https://exiledpolicy.substack.com/p/jesus-of-nazareth-wasnt-a-socialist
- Punishing Israel-boycotters is even worse than boycotting Israel
Source: The Hill
by Austin Sarat“Today, polls show that Americans are more sympathetic to the Palestinian cause than to Israel, a dramatic reversal in a short period of time. Demonstrating hostility to the Jewish state has also become a badge of honor among political progressives. … Boycotting Israel, whether on college campuses or elsewhere, is a bad idea in my view. It is not the way to change Israeli policy. … But as bad as the boycott movement is, U.S. House passage of the The Protect Economic and Academic Freedom Act, by a 237-169 vote, was worse.” (09/14/26)
https://thehill.com/opinion/congress-blog/6085347-bill-targets-campus-bds-boycotts/
- Why People Prefer Socialism to Capitalism
Source: Town Hall
by Mark Lewis“Everybody says they want freedom, but most people really don’t, mainly because they don’t know what true freedom is. And if they did, they would—and do — reject it. ‘Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom,’ Benjamin Franklin wrote, and most people don’t want to be virtuous. Which is why they prefer socialism. Homo sapiens, as a species, is a group of jungle savages who know very little about history, and especially do not understand historical perspective. In fact, when it comes to history, most humans are incredibly ignorant. Two hundred and fifty years — the life of the American Republic — when compared to the entire span of human history, is not a very long time. And we Americans look at our history very narrowly, and rarely see the whole panorama that history really is.” (09/14/26)
- Thank capitalism and free markets for human flourishing
Source: Washington Post
by US Senator John Curtis (R-UT)“There is a clear link between economic freedom and standards of living, financial resources and personal health. The Taiwan I first visited as a missionary in 1979 is nothing like the country I returned to this year. I saw firsthand how market-oriented capitalism transformed a poor, agrarian country into an economic powerhouse. That is not an isolated example. None of the most prosperous countries in the world are socialist.” (09/14/26)
- Quantum Vibe, 09/14/26
- How the Biden White House Subverted Brazil’s Bolsonaro
Source: American Greatness
by Miguel Nunes Silva“As the October election in Brazil approaches and is likely to pit, once again, a Lula vs. Bolsonaro matchup—this time with President Bolsonaro’s son Flávio running in his place—timing has never been better to hold accountable those in the U.S. who collaborated in the subversive campaign, both stateside and abroad, that would lead to President Bolsonaro’s political persecution and ultimately, incarceration, following the presidential election of 2022 in Brazil. It is in this context that President Trump’s measures to pressure the Brazilian government must be understood: as the unmaking of an injustice perpetrated by the U.S. Left, with Biden-era taxpayer instruments at its disposal. Amongst the trove of revelations that the second Trump administration has managed to expose since coming to office, those connected to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) funding are some of the most shocking and insidious.” (09/14/26)
https://amgreatness.com/2026/09/14/how-the-biden-white-house-subverted-brazils-bolsonaro/
- The framing of Chris Duncan: Part Two
Source: The Watch
by Radley Balko“Lawyers dealing with bitemark evidence were often in a no-win position in the 1990s. This was the heyday of forensic odontology. Defense attorneys generally chose one of two options: they could either attack the field broadly as unscientific and illegitimate, or they could bring in their own bitemark analyst to counter the state’s witness. In an ideal world, defense attorneys would have attacked the field — because it isn’t legitimate. There is no scientific foundation for the idea that bite marks on human skin can be matched to one person to the exclusion of everyone else. … Once courts started accepting bitemark evidence as legitimate, most defense attorneys decided that it was a waste of time and resources to challenge the field as a whole. So they went for option two: calling their own bitemark analysts to counter state experts.” (09/14/26)
https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-framing-of-chris-duncan-part
- Democrats punish members who put working Americans ahead of party loyalty
Source: Fox News
by Mehek Cooke“Democrats in Washington have committed the party’s newest unforgivable offense: representing the American people. Democratic Reps. Jared Golden of Maine and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington broke with their party Sept. 1 to advance a procedural rule allowing the House to consider Golden’s Northeast Lobsterman Protection Act and a resolution condemning socialism. The rule passed 210–208, with five Republicans opposed, making their votes decisive. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and other Democratic leaders accused them of blindsiding the caucus, called their decision ‘a significant breach of trust’ requiring ‘a serious response’ and asked the Committee on Caucus Rules to review the matter. Think about the political message Democrats sent: Helping Maine lobstermen fight burdensome regulations and allowing Congress to vote on a resolution condemning socialism are now acts of political blasphemy inside the Democratic Party. Democrats will insist their outrage is about House procedure and not lobstermen.” (09/14/26)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/democrats-punish-members-put-working-americans-ahead-party-loyalty
- Forgotten Civilizational Code
Source: Underthrow
by Max Borders“A mosaic is made of broken things. So is a civilization worth rebuilding. Recently, I found an out-of-print book by an author who is clearly a torchbearer. It struck me that his three spheres illuminated something fundamental. His name was Spencer Heath, and in 1957 he published Citadel, Market and Altar. Heath’s civilization comprises three primary spheres. 1. Citadel is the sphere of protection, where what is vital is secured and defended. 2. Market is a sphere of cooperation where we serve each other in reciprocity and mutual benefit. 3. Altar is the sphere of consecration, where art, philosophy, and divinity express our higher-order aspirations. From a sufficient altitude, we can view underthrow through these spheres.” (09/14/26)
https://underthrow.substack.com/p/forgotten-civilizational-code
- No Good Reason Why Poverty Should Still Exist
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone“The other day I saw another great example of the way people in capitalist societies tend to reframe their dumb luck as the result of their own hard work and resourcefulness. At the end of the last season of the surivalist competition Alone Australia, the winner Trent Felton was asked if he felt he’d just gotten lucky catching dozens of fish while all the other contestants starved, and he insisted that his success was actually due to the fact that he had made the wise decision to work hard obtaining food. ‘My strategy when I went out there was food,’ said Felton. ‘I’ve been a big fan of the show for a long time, and I’ve never really seen anyone leave ‘cause their shelter’s not quite up to scratch or anything like that, so from day one priority for me was food.'” (09/12/26)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2026/09/11/theres-no-good-reason-why-poverty-should-still-exist/
- Liberty Unlicensed
Source: Law & Liberty
by Thomas Vozar“Kohn Milton’s Areopagitica reveals the poet’s commitment to freedom as the pursuit of virtue and truth.” (09/14/26)
- How Congress Empowered Presidential War-Making After 9/11
Source: Foreign Policy
by Julian E Zelizer“Americans live in a perpetual state of war. Although Congress has not formally declared war since 1942, U.S. presidents have repeatedly deployed troops overseas based on United Nations resolutions, congressional authorizations, or their own executive power—as President Donald Trump has in Iran. But the power that presidents possess in matters of national security is not the product of an inevitable expansion of the executive authority. Congress builds the imperial presidency one step at a time. At key moments in U.S. history and in response to international threats, Congress has made deliberate decisions that have resulted in presidents being allowed to deploy troops and assert executive power over civil liberties. One of the most consequential moments came in the aftermath of the horrific attacks of 9/11.” (09/14/26)
- Moving Soon? Here Are 10 Modern Conveniences That Will Make It Easier.
Source: Reason
by Tosin Akintola“For much of human history, moving house has been a death-defying ordeal. When pioneer Loren Hastings reached Portland, Oregon, in 1847, he looked back on the Oregon Trail and called it a ‘graveyard.’ Today, you can pack up everything you own and move anywhere in the country without risking life and limb. Convenience has made nomads of us all, turning a tedious and life-threatening experience into one that requires minimal time and effort. It does not matter whether you live in a Texas Hill Country ranch house or in a 500-square-foot, one-bedroom apartment in Washington, D.C. Thanks to the click-and-tap world of same-day delivery made possible by capitalism, it has never been easier to pull up stakes and move to new digs.” (for publication 10/26)
- Fury at Fetterman refutes Democrats’ claim to be “big tent” party
Source: New York Post
by staff“Ronald Reagan famously said that he didn’t leave the Democrats, the Democrats left him — and now the party threatens to do the same to Sen. John Fetterman. The Pennsylvanian’s video appearance at the Republican midterm convention, praising GOP colleague Dave McCormick as a bipartisan ally as they ‘work with President Trump to fight and defend the steel way of life’, drove his critics around the bend. The left loathes Fetterman even though he votes with his caucus most of the time, and stands by policies central to the Democratic identity … at least until 15 minutes ago … simply because he refuses to go along with the lunacy he calls an ‘orgy of socialism’.” (09/14/26)
- China to the Rescue? Why Only Beijing May Be Able To End the Iran War
Source: Antiwar.com
by Trita Parsi“If you’ve followed my interviews, you know I’ve been warning about the high likelihood of a third round of the war – one that would almost certainly be far more intense than the previous two. I’ve also argued that, given Trump’s erroneous reading of the current balance, perhaps the only diplomatic wildcard that could pull us back from this looming disaster is Beijing deciding to step in and force a settlement. I discussed precisely this with Glenn Diesen on his show just yesterday. Hours later, President Xi Jinping declared China’s willingness to use its diplomatic clout to help end the war.” (09/14/26)
- What Is Worth Learning in an AI World?
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Jennie Jones“I spent my whole day today trying to save a $200 Chromebook. When I think about the hourly rate, it really wasn’t the best use of my time. School starts in less than a week, and I had many other things on my to-do list. But alas, Gemini made me feel like I could solve it, so I kept troubleshooting, and before I knew it, it was 5:00. This is an ironic pattern I have noticed lately as I use chatbots more and more for work. It makes me feel like I can do anything. Things I wouldn’t have ever considered even attempting (read: most tech-related projects), I suddenly feel like trying because there is no harm in asking. And when it works, it does feel so good. ‘I did it myself!’ I cry out like a small child learning to tie her shoes. But there have been a few times now where I realized that just because ChatGPT makes me feel like I could doesn’t always mean that I should.” (09/14/26)
https://fee.org/articles/what-is-worth-learning-in-an-ai-world/
- How Trump’s Iran operation turned into a forever war
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Harrison Berger“With few good options available, the US has left little hope for peace in the Middle East any time soon.” (09/14/260
- Trump: An Instrument of the Age
Source: Common Dreams
by John Ripton“Donald Trump is an instrument of this age, a force propelling capitalism and the global economy into a critical stage of their historical development. Since the beginning of village life some 10,000 years ago, commerce among villages and rural economies intensified as cities emerged and over centuries forged trade networks across regions into a global system of commerce. At the same time, from the beginning of markets, traders, merchants, industries, and governments engaged in the struggle for control of local, regional, and inter-regional markets. Today this struggle continues, but now with devastating consequences: the concentration of wealth on a global scale; the vast productive power and technological innovation; the multiplying flow of market-related information, and the explosive potential of artificial intelligence. Each of these factors is channeling private and public resources to elites, and spurring worldwide trade wars, technological dependency, and military confrontations that threaten humanity’s survival.” (09/14/26)
- The Reality of Republican Socialism
Source: Libertaran Institute
by Thomas Eddlem“For all the Republican fear-mongering over Democratic Party socialism, the Democrats have had a non-existent record of getting their much-touted socialist schemes enacted; even when President Barack Obama had an electoral mandate for a ‘public option’ on health care and a majority in both the U.S. House and Senate, Democrats couldn’t get it passed. But President Donald Trump’s copying of China’s ‘golden share’ concept via executive order by taking shares in private companies is, unfortunately, a much more real, damaging, and sustainable form of socialism.” (09/14/26)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/the-reality-of-republican-socialism
- We have to understand the effect of AI on jobs correctly
Source: Adam Smith Institute
by Tim Worstall“There was a time when 80% of the nation was involved in growing the food to feed 100% of the nation. Something it achieved patchily, in some years didn’t achieve. Then came the tractor – a catchall for the reaping machine, combine, tractor, seed drill and on – plus ocean going steamships to transport food and on again. We currently use some 2% of the labour of the nation to feed 100% of the nation. That 78% of the nation’s labour is not involved in the production nor maintenance of tractors. Sure, sure, tractors produced new jobs for mechanics and drivers and so on. But that’s not what made us richer. … Rather, it’s the freeing of labour from that now automated task which allows other things to be done.” (09/14/26)
https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/we-have-to-understand-the-effect-of-ai-on-jobs-correctly
- Trump May Indeed be the Worst President in American History and Maybe That’s Not All Bad
Source: exile in happy valley
by Nicky Reid“[I]s the Donald in fact the worst president in American history? He certainly seems to be breaking his back trying but there is some very stiff competition, and I’m not convinced that the majority of the navel gazing wonk class are using the proper criteria for judgement. When too many people talk about the worst president in American history, the focus always seems to veer heavily towards dysfunction and scandal. Nixon ransacking the Oval Office like a feral werepig gagging on a fist full of ludes while J. Edna lines up the dudes …. But all of this cracked reasoning negates the simple fact that what we seem to be asking for here is what amounts to a functional conductor for a killing machine.” (09/13/26)
https://exileinhappyvalley.blogspot.com/2026/09/trump-may-indeed-be-worst-president-in.html
- The Dangerous Evolution of Gavin Newsom
Source: Jonathan Turley
by Jonathan Turley“California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) wants you to know that he is evolving. Newsom is facing a rising radical movement among Democrats, including a surging contingent aligned with the Democratic Socialists of America. He is struggling in polls and therefore eager to show the skill identified by Darwin that allows certain species to thrive in their environment: adaptation. Newsom has recently declared capitalism a failure. He is now joining his competitors for president in offering up the Supreme Court and its independence to the far left. His free fall into rage politics is a cautionary tale for those who want to return the Democratic Party to more centrist positions. Often called a ‘political chameleon’, Newsom seems to be morphing into the actual species that evolved to adjust to its environment, including more nimble feet.” (09/14/26)
https://jonathanturley.org/2026/09/14/the-dangerous-evolution-of-gavin-newsom/
- Why Banning Artificial Superintelligence Fails and Strict Liability Succeeds
Source: Karl Dickey’s Freedom Vanguard
by Karl Dickey“A government ban here in America would do nothing to keep AI Superintelligence from advancing; it will continue to advance, just not as much here in the U.S. It would progress in other countries or here in America, but underground. Sanders’ Act would help other countries like China to advance with us out of the way. Handing AI Superintelligence into the hands of government bureaucrats is one of the dumbest ideas I’ve heard in a while coming out of D.C. or Vermont. We do not need a centralized, unaccountable government superpower in control of all this information. We need strict, real-world legal liability, property rights, and contract enforcement rather than preemptive federal licensing.” (09/13/26)
https://palmbeachexaminer.substack.com/p/why-banning-artificial-superintelligence
- How MAGA Bewildered Voters Into Its Alternate Reality
Source: The Bulwark
by Sarah Longwell“When I was coming up in the conservative movement, one of the hallmarks of Republican grievance was the belief that the ‘mainstream media’ was controlled by liberals and had a systemic bias against conservatives. The political and cultural right responded to this imbalance by building an industry designed to reduce public trust in mainstream media—hammering the ‘liberal bias’ narrative relentlessly. But they didn’t stop there. They also built an entire competing media ecosystem. And they had a roughly fifteen-year head start on doing it. By the time Trump arrived in 2015, the infrastructure was already firmly in place.” (09/13/26)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/how-maga-bewildered-voters-into-its-alternate-reality
- The Liberal Economy: The Car Without an Engine Goes to the Mechanic
Source: Liberal Currents
by Maia Mindel“The main criticism of liberalism is that liberals lack a theory of power. Liberalism sees itself as the enjoyment of a life of peaceable private cultivation absent the onus of public duty. The critique is that the private and civic life of individuals is also profoundly shaped by values and economic relations. Liberalism is seen as not able to formalize the relationship between wealth, power, and culture. This point was best made by one of liberalism’s most prominent, and dare I say most insightful, critics: the Nazi jurist and political thinker Carl Schmitt. His ideas, largely for the worse, are currently very influential on liberalism’s opponents.” (09/13/26)
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-liberal-economy-the-car-without-an-engine-goes-to-the-mechanic/
- The New Majority Makers
Source: The American Prospect
by David Dayen“‘My name is Randy Villegas, and I’m for Medicare for All.’ That was how Villegas, a 31-year-old Democratic candidate for Congress, opened a health care town hall in late August for close to 100 residents, most of them Latino. He was speaking at Salon Juarez, a dance hall that hosts quinceañeras and weddings in a historic section of Bakersfield known as Old Town Kern. Preceding him on stage was Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA), the progressive House member who is flirting with filling the left lane in the 2028 presidential race. Sandy Reding, a president of the California Nurses Association (CNA), one of America’s most left-wing unions, spoke before Khanna. The Working Families Party, which supports progressive populists across the country, had a table along one side. You wouldn’t know that this is one of America’s most hotly contested swing seats.” (09/14/26)
https://prospect.org/2026/09/14/oct-2026-the-new-majority-makers/
- Medicine Has Forgotten How to Touch the Patient
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Joseph Varon“When was the last time your doctor actually examined you? I do not mean when someone checked your blood pressure, copied your medication list, looked at your laboratory results, or listened briefly through a shirt before returning to the computer. I mean examined you. Looked at you. Watched you breathe. Felt your pulse. Looked at your eyes. Examined your neck. Listened carefully to your heart and lungs. Palpated your abdomen. Watched you walk. Noticed the color of your skin, the movement of your hands, the expression on your face, and the thousand other small pieces of information that a human body offers to someone who has learned how to observe it. For most of the history of medicine, this was not an optional ritual performed before ordering the ‘real tests.’ This was medicine. Today, increasingly, it is treated as something quaint, inefficient, or unnecessary.” (09/13/26)
https://brownstone.org/articles/medicine-has-forgotten-how-to-touch-the-patient/
- Trial By Jury: In Praise of the Lone Holdout
Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp“American law recognizes the right of a jury to acquit a defendant ‘in the teeth of the facts.’ We call it ‘jury nullification’: The jury decides that even though the defendant did X, the law forbidding X is wrong, at least in that case. Prosecutors hate that because they prefer convictions at any cost. Judges hate it, because they like to be in charge and don’t think anyone should be free to ignore their ‘instructions.’ The lone juror in the Clancy case is a flip side of jury nullification. He decided, based on the evidence he’d seen and the testimony he’d heard, that she was guilty, and he wasn’t going to let himself get bullied into saying otherwise. The effect isn’t as broad as acquittal — the prosecutor is free to bring the case again — but it’s the same principle. Jurors get to vote their conclusions and their conscience. Period. That’s important.” (09/13/26)
https://knappster.blogspot.com/2026/09/garrison-center-op-ed-trial-by-jury-in.html
- You Don’t Have “2nd Amendment Rights.” You Just Have Rights.
Source: Tenth Amendment Center
by Michael Boldin“Millions of people today refer to their rights by amendment number, as if they get them from the Bill of Rights. They talk about their ‘2nd Amendment rights,’ but they have it completely backwards. The founders didn’t write the words as a permission slip for the people. They aren’t a ‘gun permit.’ They are a restraining order for government: hands off our natural rights. There is no clearer restraining order than the 2nd Amendment. It doesn’t grant a right. It recognizes one that already exists, and issues a direct command to government.” (09/12/260
https://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2026/09/12/you-dont-have-2nd-amendment-rights-you-just-have-rights/
- Politicians See Opportunity in Data Center Panic
Source: Reason
by Steven Greenhut“Politicians generally operate within their partisan bubbles, as they stake out poll-tested positions that conform to the political lean of their districts and the priorities of their party. Once in a while, though, an issue so upsets the public that it transcends partisanship. Then all bets are off, as lawmakers try desperately to placate those proverbial ‘peasants with pitchforks.’ The latest example involves the construction of data centers. Voters, and hence politicians on the political left and right, are incensed about the construction of large facilities that house computers, networking equipment, servers, and storage systems that support the tech economy and the growth in Artificial Intelligence (AI). It’s hard to understand the level of upset given that these facilities are necessary to power industries that power our economy and fund state budgets.” (09/11/26)
https://reason.com/2026/09/11/politicians-see-opportunity-in-data-center-panic/
- President Trump’s new strategy on the Iran war: Pretending there isn’t one
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer
by the editorial board“During a recent cable news appearance, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick claimed no American lives had been lost in the Iran war, an error he blamed on confusion with President Donald Trump’s earlier invasion of Venezuela. And perhaps it is difficult to keep one’s wars straight in an administration that has attacked seven countries in less than two years. But while Lutnick’s claim was horribly wrong in fact, it was an accurate reflection of the administration’s consistently reprehensible diminishment of the costly war it started more than six months ago without congressional authorization or public support. The day after the secretary’s gaffe, Vice President JD Vance denied the very existence of the conflict, telling reporters, ‘I wouldn’t call it a war’ …. The day after that, Trump himself dismissed the war as ‘small potatoes’…” (09/13/26)
- SolutionsWatch, 09/14/26
Source: The Corbett Report
“Applied POSIWID.” (09/14/26)
- Reason Roundtable, 09/14/26
Source: Reason
“Is AI Really an Existential Threat?” (09/14/26)
https://reason.com/podcast/2026/09/14/is-ai-really-an-existential-threat/
- Finding Freedom, 09/14/26
Source: Lions of Liberty
“Liberty and Security: Ross Ulbricht on What Prison Taught Him About Freedom.” (09/14/26)
- The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent, 09/14/26
Source: The New Republic
“Trump’s Rage Erupts as Brutal ‘Convention’ Ratings Humiliate Him Badly.” (09/14/26)
https://newrepublic.com/article/215360/trump-rage-erupts-brutal-convention-ratings-humiliate-badly
- Ron Paul Liberty Report, 09/14/26
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
“Voters Have Nowhere To Go This Fall.” (09/14/26)
- Parallax Views w/ JG Michael, 09/14/26
Source: Parallax Views w/ JG Michael
“Is This the End of American Empire? Iran, Israel, & the New Middle East w/ Wahid Azal.” (09/14/26)
- EconTalk, 09/14/26
Source: EconTalk
“Incentives Are for Losers (with Adam Mastroianni).” (09/14/26)
https://www.econtalk.org/incentives-are-for-losers-with-adam-mastroianni/
- Zooming In, 09/14/26
Source: The UnPopulist
“Liberals Need to Loosen Up to Play the Social Media Game Against Authoritarians: A Conversation with Renée DiResta.” (09/14/26)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/liberals-need-to-loosen-up-to-play
- Antiwar News with Dave Decamp, 09/13/26
Source: Antiwar.com
“Trump Suggests US-Ansar Allah Truce Still in Effect, Iranian Ship Comes Under Attack, and More.” (09/13/26)
- The Inner Life of Liberalism, episode 5
Source: The Inner Life of Liberalism
“Practice Theory with Theodore Schatzki.” (09/12/26)
- Scott Horton on The Kyle Anzalone Show
Source: Libertarian Institute
“Bush says America didn’t overreact after 9/11. We don’t let that pass. Kyle Anzalone sits down with Scott Horton to walk through what Washington knew before the attacks, what it chose to ignore, and how a moment that demanded focused justice became an open-ended Global War on Terror.” (09/13/26)
- Unattended Baggage, episode 356
Source: Unattended Baggage
“It’s the end of the world as we know it, and AI feels fine.” (09/12/26)
https://unattendedbaggage.substack.com/p/episode-356-its-the-end-of-the-world
- Pink Flame of Liberty, 09/12/26
Source: Pink Flame of Liberty
“Judicial Committee Decision: LPNH Disaffiliation AFFIRMED (Moulton Opinion).” (09/12/26)
- Free Talk Live, 09/12/26
Source: Free Talk Live
“Jay discusses giving kids a head start in life by keeping them off of tablets and teaching them skills :: Dave Ridley came out with an audiobook :: Caller lost use of legs after meth-related car accident and gained a new meaning for his life :: 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center caused by the FBI :: TSA and Flock have killed the fourth amendment :: Correcting your citizenship status to take your rights back from the feds :: Lindsay Clancy, should her drs be accountable? :: Jury rights and red flag laws :: Just asking questions about the Holocaust :: Riley got 5% of the vote in his state rep run :: SignalTrace, new business like Flock :: Green language the language of synchronicity :: They don’t listen to the constitution anyway :: VT has fewer people than NH but more homeless :: 2026-09-12 Hosts: Bonnie, Jay Noone, Riley O’Bill.” (09/12/26)
- Serious Trouble, 09/11/26
Source: Serious Trouble
“A Massachusetts judge could not cajole the Lindsay Clancy jury into a verdict; an ICE agent faces federal charges for lying about a shooting; Kyrsten Sinema faces trial for stealing a man.” (09/11/26)
- The Good Fight, 09/12/26
Source: Yascha Mounk
“Judith Dada on the Rise of the AfD.” (09/12/26)
- The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent, 09/11/26
Source: The New Republic
“Trump Tailspins as His New Plot to Rig Midterms Is Mocked Even on Fox.” (09/11/26)
https://newrepublic.com/article/215305/trump-tailspins-new-plot-rig-midterms-mocked-even-fox
- Ron Paul Liberty Report, 09/11/26
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
“Why Understanding Inflation Is Deliberately Difficult: With Guest Economist Phillip Patrick.” (09/11/26)
- The Dishcast with Andrew Sullivan, 09/11/26
Source: The Weekly Dish
“Azam Ahmed On The Aftermath Of 9/11.” (09/11/26)
https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/azam-ahmed-on-the-aftermath-of-911
- Reasonably Optimistic, 09/11/26
Source: Washington Post
“This medieval revolt has a warning for today.” (09/11/26)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/impromptu/this-medieval-revolt-has-a-warning-for-today/